Mihail Eric¶
Head of AI at Monaco (AI-native revenue engine, $35M funded). Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford — teaches CS146S: The Modern Software Developer, "the first course in the world dedicated to how AI is transforming every stage of the software development lifecycle." 12+ years building production AI (Amazon Alexa, Storia AI YC S24).
Grounded thesis (MLOps Podcast #370)¶
The software engineer job description has fundamentally shifted — from "writing code" to "designing systems and directing agents." The engineers getting the most out of coding agents are the ones who invest the most upfront in architecture, planning, and codebase structure — not less.
Grounded quotes¶
- On the shift: "The seniors are going to keep having jobs because they're seniors and they've been around a while. The juniors are now in the workforce and they're like holy, you know, crap, what are we going to do?"
- On taste and architecture: "There's some where you do want a stronger say on architecture, on design, on having a handle on these things. That's probably true of core infrastructure stuff."
- On spec/feature review: "You're like really injecting your own taste and your own design principles and your own understanding architecture. And then… the stuff that can be kicked off more is the ones where… they're not such meaty tasks."
- On planning + delegation: "When we talk about multi-agent, one of the set of skills that is becoming increasingly more important is the planning and the delegation. Planning and delegation are still undervalued and yet super crucial."
- On the frontier of verifiability: "That's probably where coding agents even today will hit their limits a little bit… but that's not to say we shouldn't keep pushing that frontier."